Analysis of terrorist attacks across the world

This is a detailed summary from the Global Terrorist Database and therein India specific analysis as well.

• Globally, we see that there is an exponential increase in attacks from 2012 onwards and it has skyrocketed.
• India has seen spikes in 1985-86 due to Kashmir & 2007-09 due to the Mumbai attacks.

• Iraq has seen the most number of attacks and they have high casualty.
• Iraq, Afghanistan, Pakistan,Syria are all related to the Global war on terror, ISIS.
• India numbers are related to all the Pakistan terrorist attacks.
• Sri Lanka numbers are from the LTTE wars
• Nigeria/Somalia are from the Civil wars and Boko Haram terrorist attacks.
• United States is related to 9/11 attacks. IT has the low killed numbers but high on the wounded.
• Colombia is likely Escobar and the drug related gang wars.

• Middle East/Africa are the center of Civil wars and Global terrorist regions.
• South Asia will include India,Pakistan, Afghanistan

• Global
  • As we saw from the country graph, Iraq=Baghdad/Ninewah/Al Anbar/Saladin are the highest in the kill number.
  • Borno is Nigeria
  • Punjab in India saw the highest terrorist attacks during the Pakistan and Khalistan movement.
  • New York has the highest killed during the 9/11
• India
  • As we saw earlier, J&K and Punjab started the trend of violence.
  • Maoist have seen their rise in Assam/Chhattisgarh/Maharashtra etc.

Global Most of the cities in Iraq and Somalia are having the high numbers. * We also see cities like Colombo(LTTE), Medellin(Escobar)

• India
  • Cities across J&K + Punjab are seen along with Mumbai after the Mumbai blasts.

Global Citizens/Police/Military are the maximum casualty.

Global Police/Military/Govt are the main targets.

India Police are the main targets of attacks and the attacks in Kashmir/Punjab are evidence. * Informats and Political rallies are also key targets.

Now let see if we can see any trend in the usage of “weaptype1_txt” over the years.